Specifications

The settings described here should provide maximum performance and stability:
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UC or USWC - USWC. See 'I have a Video Memory option in my BIOS that I can set to UC or USWC.
What should it be set to?' question.
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Fast Writes - Enabled.
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AGP Mode - 2x or 4x, depending on whether your motherboard supports AGP4X or not.
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AGP Driving Control - Auto.
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AGP Master 1 WS Write - Enabled.
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AGP Master 1 WS Read - Enabled.
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AGP Aperture - see 'What should my AGP Aperture size be set to?' question.
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Assign IRQ to VGA - Enabled.
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Video BIOS Shadow - Disabled.
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Video BIOS Cacheable - Disabled.
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Video RAM Cacheable - Disabled.
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C8000 - xxxxx Shadow - Disabled.
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Peer Concurrency - Enabled.
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Concurrent PCI Host - Enabled.
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PCI Streaming - Enabled.
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VGA Palette Snoop - Disabled.
You can also try these settings if you are having problems:
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Memory hole between 15-16MB - Enabled.
For other BIOS settings, see the excellent BIOS Optimization Guide at Adrian's Rojak Pot here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011018120214/http://www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm
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Q. I have a Video Memory option in my BIOS that I can set to UC or USWC. What should it
be set to?
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Setting this to USWC should increase performance in most cases, but only by a very small amount.
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If this is set to USWC it may cause problems after POST.
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If this is set to UC it may cause lockups after recovering from Standby.
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Creative Labs recommend setting this to UC.
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Overall, it's probably best to try setting it to USWC and then set it to UC if you have problems.
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Q. How can I use the latest Video BIOS without flashing my Video BIOS?
WARNING:
This section is really only for people who understand how DOS works. Don't email me asking
what conventional memory or TSRs are, how to use EMM386 or LOADHIGH, or for instructions as to how to
edit your autoexec.bat file - if you don't know, then this section is too advanced for you.
There is a program called VGABIOS that was written by NVIDIA. It is a TSR program that will load a Video
BIOS after you have booted your machine, and use that BIOS instead of the BIOS on your card.
This means that if something goes wrong, all you have to do is remove VGABIOS from your startup files and
your old BIOS will be used instead (it is unaffected by the process.
The disadvantage of this is firstly that the program takes up 64KB of memory (oh no!) and secondly that I
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